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Re:JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat by EForEndeavour on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:50PM (#19994688)
Javascript isn't just a frontend language though, is it?

> I'm not applying ML strategies to hundreds of thousands of data points

Maybe you aren't, but the folks over at tensorflow.js [1] certainly are, as well as Andrej Karpathy's ConvnetJS [2].

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/js [2] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/class...

Re:JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat by ng12 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:06PM (#19994865)
Which is why I specified I was talking about the front-end.
Re:JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat by EForEndeavour on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:10PM (#20002978)
There's plenty of demand for and work on frontend JS performance as well, e.g, https://greensock.com/
Re:JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat by ng12 on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:34PM (#20003663)
You're being pedantic -- I'm not saying that there performance-critical JS code doesn't exist, I'm saying that the push for readability over performance isn't going anywhere.